Man acquitted in Air India case won't get $9.2 million in costs reimbursed:judge

Vancouver: A man acquitted in the Air India terrorist bombing trial won't be getting back $9.2 million in legal fees after a British Columbia judge rejected his claims for compensation.
Ripudaman Singh Malik said the length and complexity of the trial, the number of lawyers he had to hire and weak evidence from a Crown witness warranted a judicial review of his case.
He claimed the Crown knew, or ought to have known, that a central witness against him was not credible and that perhaps due to severe public pressure, prosecutors turned a blind eye to the obvious frailties of the woman's evidence.
Malik's lawyer, Bruce McLeod, argued before B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ian Josephson in May that the case fell markedly short of the criminal standard.
12/07/12 Camille Bains/The Canadian Press/Vancouver Sun

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